HomeMy WebLinkAboutcc min 1989/04/27 MINUTES OF AN ADJOURNED MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA, CALIFORNIA
Thursday, April 27, 1989 Council Chamber
4:12 p.m. Public Services Building
ROLL CALL
PRESENT: Mayor Cox, Councilmembers McCandliss (arrived at
4:46 Nader, Malcolm, and Moore
ABSENT: None
ALSO PRESENT: City Manager Goss, Director of Public Works
Lippitt
1. CLEAN WATER PROJECT PRESENTATION BY METRO II REPRESENTATIVES
Director of Public Works Lippitt distributed tables prepared by the
San Diego Metropolitan Sewerage System listing the cost breakdown
b Agency, the breakdown by alternatives and a short description of
t~e different alternatives, breakdown of the capital costs and the
monthly rates predicted for the average family in the City of San
Diego for the year 1995. To answer Council questions, he
introduced Milon Mills, Jr., Director of the Department of Water
Utilities and Bob Mills, Deputy Director for the Program Manager,
who has been hired to do this project planning.
Bob Mills, Deputy Director for the Program, presented a slide
presentation to give an overview of the system. The presentation
reported the needs of clean water, the essential role that the
oceans, bays and beaches play in everyone's of life. The City of
San Diego devised a plan to clean up San Diego Bay which had become
severely polluted and constructed a Metropolitan Sewerage System
and Waste Water Treatment Plant on Point Loma which began operation
in 1963, which still handles all of San Diego's waste water as well
as the waste water of fifteen other communities. Mr. Mills
reported the Federal Government's higher standards now requires
municipalities to upgrade their water treatment capabilities to
secondary treatment to remove 85% of the solids from waste water.
To up9rade the Point Loma Plant to comply with the Federal
Government's standards, the Clean Water Program for Greater San
Diego was proposed; the time period for implementation covers more
than a decade and which will cost a great deal of money. The
proposed System must be capable of secondary treatment for the
entire Metropolitan service area with ultimate capacity in the year
2050, be environmentally sound, have a minimum impact on lives and
provide the greatest amount of water reclamation.
MINUTES 2 April 27, 1989
At 4:46 p.m., Councilman McCandliss took her seat on the dais.
To answer Councilman Moore's questions, it was confirmed that ten
Cities in San Diego County are involved; the remaining Cities have
their own systems and have no effect on the program in discussion.
Councilman Malcolm questioned the probability of raising
assessments to prepare for the projected "huge cost" of the
program; Mr. Mills advised it is difficult to collect fees without
more information regarding which cities will participate and until
the actual cost is known. Director Lippitt, in agreement with
Councilman Malcolm, advised that his staff is now starting
preparations in anticipation of a recommendation to Council to
raise the sewer rates to accommodate the cost if appropriate.
At 5:02 p,m., Mayor Cox and Councilman Malcolm left the meeting;
Mayor pro tempore Nader took the Chair.
Director Milon Mills, Jr. reported that the City of San Diego has
hired consultants to look at the cost effectiveness of including
other cities versus the cost of other cities' implementing their
own system to comply. The consultants will be coming to each City
to investigate their preferences to organize and finance the system
as well as other ways to govern the system; the answers must be
accomplished by the end of 1989.
City Manager Goss stressed the necessity of looking at what the
City of Chula Vista could do on its own. Councilmembers questioned
and discussed the many ways of accomplishing this necessary system
for the City of Chula Vista.
2. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS - None
3. CITY MANAGERS COMMENTS None
4. MAYOR'S COMMENTS None
5 COUNCIL COMMENTS
COUNCILMAN NADER:
Requested staff work with the City Attorney to provide Council
with an outline of the terms of the contract with the City of
San Diego and the Metro Sewer Agency to include the City of
Chula Vista's obligations and where it does not obligate the
City.
ADJOURNMENT AT 5:10 p.m. to the Joint Council/Chula Vista 2000 Task
Force Subcommittee Meeting on Saturday, April 29 at 10:30 a.m. in
the Public Service Building (Rooms 2 & 3) and to the Regular
Meeting of May 2, 1989 at 4:00 p.m.
i~ea~n Fortune, CMC
Deputy City Clerk